Hello,
I have a mother who is worried that she has very low fat breastmilk.  Her milk seems “light colored” to her and her baby isn’t gaining as much weight as he did (about 2-3 weeks now) baby is 2 1/2 weeks.
She is block feeding this past 2 weeks because she feels she has an oversupply. but breasts are soft between meals. baby does not gag during breastfeeding
she always fed on one breast per feed, and never pumped to actually see the whole milk volume in color.  Babies has gained total of  2.5 kilos since birth.  
has mustard stool in the morning with less fussy breastfeeding during the night and green stool in the afternoon with fussiness during the day.

according to her she has a normal diet, one dairy , yogurt ,a day. no diet restrictions.

from my knowledge base and searching the archives here,  I read that mother’s diet does not affect the fat content of her breastmilk, and that it is the way a baby eats that does.  

I have suggested to her to feed on both breasts at each meal, switching a third time if baby needs to.  I have suggested for her to pump milk and see the total milk color, if it starts to turn opaque ( an indication of fat). 

any experience with similar mother situations, any other suggestions that you can suggest, have you seen diet influencing fat contact during bf, despite research saying saying that it doesn’t.
thank you
kathy dounoulis
Greece 

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